'Donald Trump's America' Is Like '1984' George Orwell Novel, Gary Johnson's VP Bill Weld Says

While Republican Donald Trump was tweeting insults at Democrat Hillary Clinton on Tuesday morning, Libertarian vice-presidential candidate Bill Weld launched an old-school attack: He read from a book. Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Weld quoted the dystopian novel "1984" -- and linked it to the GOP presidential nominee. Weld, the former Massachusetts governor running alongside Gary Johnson, told the hosts he wanted to read three sentences from the book, which came out in 1949 and tells the story of a society watched by the political leader Big Brother. "So, you know, Big Brother is running the country in George Orwell's '1984,' and every day he beams two minutes of hate into the minds of everyone in the country. So here's three sentences," Weld said Tuesday.